8/02/2010 @ 6:00PM

In Pictures: America's Best Sports Fans

In Pictures: America’s Best Sports Fans

To make our list, we looked at every team in the Big Four U.S. professional sports leagues: football (NFL), basketball (NBA), baseball (MLB), and hockey (NHL). First, we measured their home and away game attendance, which indicates a team’s drawing power in its home market and nationwide. Then we counted their merchandise sales. Finally, we ranked each team’s in-market popularity, based on surveys. We ranked all of the teams, then took the top four from each of the four leagues.